"~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids……" — Emma Thompson
"~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners.... The one thing you've got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time.~"
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97 Quotes by Emma Thompson
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The films I've made for children have been my hardest work, my best, because kids deserve the best.
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I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed…
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The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.
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I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You…
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Girlfriends are vital ... Maggie [Gyllenhaal] and I will always see each other when Maggie's in London or I'm here.…
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It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What…
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Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.
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I present the nominees, well, not me the Voice of God, for Best Screenplay.
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I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.
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Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain…
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We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.
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We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days…
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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
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Bad men are full of repentance.
— Aristotle
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It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's…
— Julian Assange
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Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen…
— Richard Bach
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I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -…
— Richard Armitage
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
— Frank Abagnale
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
— David Arquette
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
— Isaac Asimov
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
— Chinua Achebe
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